CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Division 2 Athletics Directors Association announced the 2023-24 recipients of the D2 ADA Academic Achievement Awards. Delta State University Athletics boasts 118 student-athlete honorees, the third most in the Gulf South Conference.
 
All 13 intercollegiate athletic teams at Delta State were recognized with multiple athletes from each team: baseball (9), men's basketball (2), football (25), golf (4), men's soccer (15), men's swimming and diving (3), women's swimming and diving (17), men's tennis (3), women's tennis (3), women's basketball (5), cross country (6), softball (16), and women's soccer (13).
 
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In order for a student-athlete to receive an Academic Achievement Award, he or she must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale, have completed a minimum of two years (four semesters) of college-level work at a two-year and/or four-year institution, and have been an active member of an intercollegiate team during his or her last academic year.

The Academic Achievement Awards, in its 17^th year, is a program that recognizes the academic accomplishments of student-athletes at the Division II level. For the second straight year, there were more than 19,000 student-athletes recognized from 192 institutions for the 2023-24 Academic Achievement Awards. This year's total, 19,774, is the highest in the program's history. In total, 167,396 student-athletes have been recognized since the inception of the awards program.